Editor's note: Lovina Eicher is recuperating from gall bladder surgery. Her column will return in two weeks. This week and next will be spent answering some reader recipe requests: Dear Lovina: I lost ...

Gloria took the week after Thanksgiving off from writing the column, but she will be back next week. As her editor and a writer myself, I can attest to the rigors of writing a weekly column. She and I ...

Verena takes pen in hand to write the column this week. She shares of hosting a "mystery menu" for Thanksgiving dinner.

The last few days have been rainy. The many, many leaves that have not been picked up are now matted to the wet grass. It will be more of a challenge to use the leaf blower now. Joe started the coal ...

Years had passed since I had set foot on an icy pond. Motherhood had taken over, and priorities had shifted. That evening 10 years ago, we had taken baby Julia along to the neighbors, where she ...

For this column I’m going to share some excerpts from my mother Elizabeth Coblentz’s columns from November 1994. Joe and I ...

My sister Liz and Levi had us over for supper on Sunday evening. She wanted us to come before we pack up the rest of our things for Michigan. The children had a lot of fun. Levi Jr., age 9, gave my ...

My kitchen is torn to pieces; everything is a huge mess. Before you get worried, though, I’m having an amazing day! Thanks to the kindness and generosity of those who had never met us, I am getting ...